Opinion

It is well known people generally have skewed perceptions of risk. We give dramatic outcomes much greater attention than more frequent smaller calamities.

OUR EFSF CONCERNS

This year's Investment Week Senate Autumn Investment Conference may have been held at an historic mansion house estate (Luton Hoo) but the thoughts of our delegates and fund managers were very firmly on the future.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

It is beginning to feel like the 1980s again in the UK - tax the rich and ban page three girls - at least according to the Liberal Democrats.

The autumn party conference season inevitably brings the issues of tax to the forefront of the political agenda, and this year looks set to be no exception.

One of the scariest aspects of the current debt crisis is the surfeit of cash on corporate balance sheets.

TWISTED THINKING

Kweku Adoboli, an ETF trader at UBS, is suspected of unauthorised trading which cost the bank £1.3bn. But UBS is far from alone in suffering the sting of internal fraud, as this gallery of the world's most infamous rogue traders shows...

FOUR HIDDEN RISKS